Garden-cultivator



(No Model.)

eB. WOOD. GARDEN GULTIVATUR.

Patented July 10,1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERAsTUs WooD, oE MARSHALL, INDIANA.

GARDEN-CULTIVATOR.

SPECIFICATIGN forming part of Letters Patent No. 522,868, dated July 10,1894.

Application filed July 31,1893. Serial No. 482,036. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom' it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERAsTUs WOOD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Marshall,

`in the county of Parke and State of Indiana, have invented-a new anduseful Garden-Cul tivator to be Used and Operated by Man- Power, ofwhich the following'is a specification.

Figure 1, is a perspective View of Iny machine. Fig. 2, is a View of theremovable shovel.

A. represents the wheel.

B, represents the arch spanning the wheel and resting on the axle.

C represents a section of gas pipe running from the top of the arch B toa cross bar in the arch, two inches below.

D represents the cross bar aforesaid.

K represents abolt passing through the top of arch B. down through gaspipe C and screwing into cross bar D.

Gr represents the breast bar upon which` the breast plate is attached.

H. represents the breast plate aforesaid to push against with the body.

E and F represent arms or branches connecting breast bar G with and oneach side of arch B at the middle thereof.

M represents a beam clasped around gas pipe C and running back and downbehind Wheel A to clamp O thence spreading back and upward forming thehandles N N.

V represents a triangular shaped continuous bar `attached to beam M byabolt passing through clasp O and by hook bolts on handles N N.

S represents five spring teeth attached to the triangular shapedcontinuous bar V. The shovel plow, Fig. 2, can also be attached in theplace of the rear tooth and used as a single plow, by removing all theteeth.

What I claim as my invention, and for which I desire Letters Patent,is*- 1. The combination in a hand cultivator of a wheel, an axle, anarch seated upon the axle and spanning and rising above the wheel, a barswiveled in the arch above the wheeland extending downward and thenupward to form handles and to receive a cultivator frame, substantiallyas shown and described.

2. The combination of the Wheel and axle the arch spanning the wheel andcarrying above it the vertical swivel post the bar swiveled to the postand extending downward to receive the cultivator frame and thence np-Ward forming the handles, the frame carrying the cultivator teeth andthe breast bar having its branches pivoted to either side of the arch,substantially as described.

ERASTUS VOOD.

